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Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs

Frontier Medicine in the American West
  • ISBN-13: 9781570984549
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROBERTS RINEHART
  • By Wayne Bethard
  • Price: AUD $40.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 16/01/2013
  • Format: Paperback 272 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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Powder papers, booty balls, and sugar tits- Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs has a cure for whatever ails! These quaint names were given to popular medicinal forms during America's frontier era that were said to cure everything from fallen arches to a broken windmill. Grandmas, mommas, and even certified physicians treated the sick, lame, and unlucky with what was available: barbed wire and horseshoe nails, cactus, pokeweed, buckeyes, you name it. Ironically, a lot of these homespun treatments actually worked. In Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs, a practicing pharmacist takes a light-hearted look at the most popular medicines from the frontier days and how they were intended to work.
Foreword by Henry Chappell Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Frontier Dosage Forms Chapter 2: Treatments: The Good, the Sad, and the Ungodly Chapter 3: Frontier and Pioneer Drugs: A Folk Materia Medica Frontier Medical Dates and Other "Worth of Note" Facts Old and Near-Forgotten Medical Terms References Index About the Author
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